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“If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.”

Ifs Thinking Social Pay Expression Taxes Democrat Finest

Author:Mona Sahlin

“If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.”

Ifs Needs Country Shows Solutions Islam Soldier Marine Show Respect

Author:David Brooks

“If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.”

“If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may be a reluctance with all the things that go along with it, you got to choose, and this is one of my big opportunities to get back doing it.”

Ifs May Bigs Song Opportunity Singers Get Back Songwriters Reluctance

Author:Donnie Fritts

“If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Yeah Bad Things Retiring Songwriters

Author:Margaret Cho

“If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.”

Ifs Kind Choices Sports Realizing Team Fans Roots Girlfriend Inspirational Team Sports Fan

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“If you're a stand-up, you're more or less yourself.”

Ifs

Author:Jon Glaser

“If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.”

Ifs Stars Doors Fronts Rose Garbage Front Doors Back Doors

Author:Robert Stack

“If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.”

Ifs Mean States Citizens Taxes Credit

Author:Jonathan Gruber

“If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer. Some politics are asked to show their passports and others aren't. In the Dominican Republique, if you're slightly progressive, people have a lot of suspicions that you're up to some sort of conspiracy, that this is some sort of plot. On the other hand, if you're conservative and mainstream, people tend to take that as a given and don't notice the politics.”

People Political Conservative Progressive Conspiracy Suspicion Status Quo

Author:Junot Diaz

“If you're a strong female, you don't need permission.”

Ifs Needs Strong Female Permission Strong Female

Author:Lady Gaga

“If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Strong Strong Women Threatened Strong Man

Author:Barack Obama

“If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.”

Ifs Art Problem Artist Struggle Middle Bricks Blanket Money Problem

Author:Nicole McKay

“If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.”

Ifs Pages Studios

Author:Thomas Lennon

“If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.”

Ifs Men Feels Important Left Chance Successful Phones Email Consuming Chances Are Phone Calls Left Out Successful Women Time Consuming Business Trips

Author:Patti Stanger

“If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.”

Ifs Self Kids Values Stuff Moral Teach Teacher Self Control Curriculum

Author:Tony Danza

“If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.”

People Ifs Way Kids Teacher Gay Instance Classroom Representation Gay People Positive Image

Author:Amy Ray

“If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.”

Ifs Needs

Author:Martin Fowler

“If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.”

Ifs Terrorist

Author:Leon Panetta

“If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're not going to be prepared for the acting side. The only thing you can do is go through the meat grinder of your first film.”

Film Acting Be Prepared

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Interesting Brain Intriguing Liver Thinking Person

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't benefit. The people who buy it won't benefit from it. They're going to get a half-assed product.”

People Ifs Jobs Half Produce Products Benefits Thorough

Author:Jack Kirby

“If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.”

Ifs Persons Might Turns Crime Tendencies

Author:Billy Joel

“If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.”

Ifs Victim Mad

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you're a victim, you're not happy. You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's even difficult to be content.”

Ifs Difficult Impossible Victim Not Happy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.”

Ifs Want Voice Community Impact

Author:Vince Staples

“If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.”

People Ifs Want Writing Reader Rejection Odds

Author:Tim Maleeny

“If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.”

Ifs Might Waiting Five Depends Skills Percent Math Seventies Waiter Math Skills

Author:Kelly Ripa

“If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.”

Ifs Wealth Pay Trump Taxes Gains Sells Income Fund Wealthy Register Income Tax Heirs Accountants Paying Taxes Offshore Trust Funds

Author:Michael Hudson

“If you're a website and you want to get attention, you can Hiterlize anything.”

Ifs Want Attention Website

Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.”

Ifs Mean Kids Names Black White Growing Up Growing Player College Towns Chests Kids Growing Up Our Town

Author:Frank Deford

“If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.”

Ifs Made Said Funny Guy Left Heard Romantic Sick Romantic Love

Author:Louis C. K.

“If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.”

People Ifs Wells Kind Feelings Might Views Steps Fronts Decided Commit Radical Platforms

Author:Lizz Winstead

“If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a girl." My only issue is, when that stereotype and stigma already exists, sometimes it's perpetuated by people who may not really play guitar. You somehow need to transcend that division of gender.”

People Sometimes Girl Musician Gender Stereotype Stigma

Author:Thao Nguyen

“If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Firsts Looks Hate Asks Think Of You Hate And Fear

Author:Margaret Atwood

Source: Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

“If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.”

Ifs Want Littles Play Women Roles Too Much Impossible Crush Dependent Fragile Fascinated

Author:Marina Abramovic

“If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'”

Ifs Believe Hard Shots Don't Believe Good Movie

Author:Katie Aselton

“If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table every night, and do all the research into preschools. It's really hard.”

Ifs Stills Hard Home Night Mom Research Tables Dinner Expected Every Night Organic Food Working Mom

Author:Joe Swanberg

“If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.”

People Ifs Way Needs Long Sometimes Christian Past Used Speak Language Realizing Christianity Opinion Taken Long Time Useless Conventional

Author:Wendell Berry

“If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.”

Ifs Want Morning Wake Up Agents

Author:Bernice Rubens

“If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.”

Ifs Knows Men Stories Old Man

Author:Tom Waits

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”

Ifs Answers

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.”

Ifs Writing Stories Fiction Science Fiction Genre Thrown Spaceships Fiction Stories

Author:Charlie Jane Anders

“If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.”

Ifs Believe Hard Hard Work Believe In Yourself Believe In You Just Believe Egomaniacs Just Believe In Yourself

Author:James Purdy

“If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.”

Ifs Interest Path Following Deeper Keep Going

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.”

People Ifs Want Writing Looks Soul Your Soul

Author:Jeremy Larner

“If you're a writer, you're always working.”

Ifs Always Working

Author:Alan Furst

“If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.”

Ifs Way Art Accepting Like You Complaining Chosen

Author:Mark Rubinstein

“If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?”

Ifs Persons Young Artist Wonder Jazz Pops Hey Opera Vague Young Artists Multimedia

Author:Laurie Anderson

“If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!”

Ifs Want Persons Said Important Young Actors Walks Rooms Delight Life Experience Casting

Author:Kenny Ortega

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